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This oil painting explores the inner world of a woman during her menstrual cycle — a time often surrounded by silence, stigma, and pain. The composition reveals a woman turned away, her body holding both darkness and light. On one side, pain curls into her side, and the world grows dim. On the other, warmth, color, and stillness emerge. The dove symbolizes peace in the midst of physical struggle; the wine glass becomes a metaphor for the quiet sacrifice and sacred flow. Despite the knives of discomfort and the storm inside, she remains elegant — her fingers painted red not in vanity, but in truth. This is a portrait of pain turned in